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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
BLACKPHILLY: The Text Data Game
"LEVEL UP!"
blackphilly
Educational
Play in browser
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
if not us
$7
In bundle
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
The Saint's Tomb
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Role Playing
Play in browser
Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
burning alexandria
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
javid hornet
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ALL @ ONCE
$2.99
Can you discover you?
Lawrence Marable
Interactive Fiction
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
STEALTH
A story about getting everything you ever wanted and what comes next.
Jillian Maywhether
Interactive Fiction
Dungeon Crawler on Demand!
Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
redpangilinan
Role Playing
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Adventure
Play in browser
Telvoikai
$1
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Corvaena
Role Playing
Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Adventure
Escort Yourself Out
a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
bignastytruck (violet)
Simulation
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
Stares Back
The signs brought you here.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Adventure
Personality Quiz
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
monicaseldow
She
A romance that ended yesterday, 150 years ago.
Sam☆Lewis
Interactive Fiction
Astra Protocol
Explore space in this retro inspired survival game
Slice Bar
Survival
Blood to Bone
$3
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
euio
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Interactive Fiction
Sapphire Lung
A game of Industrial Injuries, Unions, and the Three Laws of Transmutation
Pleroma
Interactive Fiction
Redundant
Your ten years on the station are up. The Company sent a pair of clones to replace you-- and they've got a secret.
Laura Michet
Interactive Fiction
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